Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-04
THE LEGIsLATURE.>
Dakota's Law Makers Getting Down
to Business.
Passage of II Large Number of
Bills-A Night Session i'm
the House.
COUNCIL.

OAoAAhEEhy mhECQ S--1l0 council
adopted q rule limiting speech.making
Bills were introduced:
BY Mr.. Mathews. appropriating $780,.
wv Tor the current expenses of Brookings
university; also relating to the compen.
sation of expert medical testimony.
BY MI. Smith, relating to the attach
ment OF property of non.residents.
by Mr. Washabaugh, pertaining to
appeal bond in municipal corporations,
by Mr.. Sheldon, Of Hand, permitting
county commissioners compromising
delinquent real estate tax after two
years.
By Mr.. Martin, fixing saloon license
at 5000 TO $1,000 end, separate billiards
halls 300 to $500,
BY Mr.. Campbell, providing for o
change OF the number of directors of
corporations.
By Mr.. Hughes, ratiiying the acts Of
loan companies.
By MIR. Martin, fixing the date of the
third Tuesday in June for the annual
election of the independent school dis
trict within the boundaries of incorpor-
Rted towns.
Council bills passed:
Appropriating 800. 00C, for o normal
school building at Springfield; also pro
viding the distribution of supreme court
reports; also appropriatlng $4,000 for
the improvement OF the Sioux Falls deaf
mute school; also permitting mum.
opal corporations to extend or restrict
limits; also providing for appointment
instead OF election of city marshalr; also
the house bill appropriating $55 900
bonds for the construction of the Madl,
son normal school; also approprlatine
$4,000 bonds for the erection of the
central Dakota university at Aberdeen
also appropr;ating $2n 900 bonds for
the erection of q dormitory for Grand
Forks university.
Also an appropriation OF S54, 900 bonds
for an experimental form and dormitory
for the Bookings agricultural college;
also appropriatlng $2S, 600 bonds for the
Spearfsh normal school.
HOUSE.
Bills were introduced:
By Mr.. Fellows, providing for the in
aurance of crops against hail.
BY Mr. Athens, providing for q dis
trict attorney for every organized coun.
ty; also permitting the levy OF . 5-milI
road tax.
By Mr.. Pruitt, requiring registers of
deeds to certify and make abstracts; also
regulating abstractors titles.
By MIR. Hobart, appropriating funds to
pay for the printing Of certain reports.
The house passed council bills:
Providing $50 900 for the construction
of the Plankington reform school; also
the house bill appropriating So 900 for
q territorial library; also legalizing
assessment rolls; also authorizing towns
and cities to lay out and vacate streets
and alleys; also creating two territorial
boards of agriculture, and providing
fairs for north and south Dakota and
appropriatIng $1,000 each; also provid-
ing for the payment of expenses in Grim.
inal cases where there is no sub.judical
district; also for the protection of
beavers; also fixing the legal rate of
interest and defining usury. It fixes
the rate at IL per cent and amply provi-
des thet excess of that rate cannot be
recovered by action; also for protecting
game, also to insure better education of
dental partictioners.
The house passed council bills re-
curing teachers to keep q record Of the
visits ct county superintendent; also
authorizing cities TO fund outstanding
Indebtedness.
Adjourned till evening.
The house at the evening session
passed the house bill fixing the salaries
OF county %treasurers and register OF
deeds to take effect January, 1889. It
makes the limit of fees $4,000, the bal
ance to be turned into the treasury, also
enforcing lien on progeny for service to
stallion; also creating the Office OF coun.
" auditor on petition OF twenty voters.
Adjourned.